Good Nuff

Johnny Hammond Smith (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Prestige
• ASIN: B0000C3IDL
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,792 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good 'Nuff

2. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

3. Sonja's Dreamland

4. Besame Mucho

5. Neck Bones

6. Delicious

7. Y'all

8. The Stinger

9. There Is No Greater Love

10. Brother John

11. Cleopatra and the African Knight

12. You Don't Know What Love Is

13. Bennie's Diggin'

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars "Good 'Nuff" Is Just That, July 22, 2010

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Michael B. Richman (Portland, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Nuff (Audio CD)

Don't be fooled by the 70s photograph of Johnny "Hammond" Smith on the cover (winning the Jimmy Walker from Good Times look-alike contest), this Prestige CD features two of the organist's albums from the 1960s. The best session is the first, "Cooks With Gator Tail" recorded on June 12, 1962 and featuring Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson on tenor sax, Eddie McFadden on guitar and Leo Stevens on drums. This is a solid four-star outing with lots of inventive soul jazz, before that genre became a cliche. 1965's "The Stinger" unfortunately is after soul jazz traded in many of its ideas for rock and R&B stylings. This quartet which alternates Houston Person and Earl Edwards on tenor sax, and presents Floyd Smith on guitar and John Harris on drums (neither of whom I've ever heard of), is rather uninspired and just goes through the motions -- sadly it is a two-star affair. So three stars for an average and with so many excellent "Hammond" Smith CDs remaindered and currently cheap from a variety of sources, start with the great discs like That Good Feelin / All Soul, Talk That Talk and Open House (see my review of the latter) instead of a "Good 'Nuff" one.